How to Use median strip in a Sentence

median strip

noun
  • The plants are in the median strip and there are metal guard rails.
    Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Abandoned cars littered the median strip of the main roads out of Kyiv.
    Thomas Grove, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The man’s vehicle flipped over in the median strip west of Ohio 36.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 18 Dec. 2019
  • On a grassy median strip on the other side of the street, a cluster of about four tents remained.
    Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
  • On the median strip on the highway, next to the drive-through at McDonald’s, and crossing roads all over the place — even in the city.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The troopers opened fire, and the motorhome crashed into a median strip.
    oregonlive, 22 June 2021
  • The bike lanes and the median strip (also painted on and now difficult to see) were added.
    Christopher Bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The driver lost control on the exit ramp, crossed Wilkens Avenue and struck the median strip.
    Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The tracks rise about 16 feet (5 meters) above a median strip and roadway in the southern borough of Tlahuac.
    Mark Stevenson, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
  • Abandoned cars littered the median strip of the main roads out of Kyiv after breaking down or running out of gas.
    Thomas Grove, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • On Culver Boulevard in Del Rey, a median strip that was once home to dozens of people had a single tent last month.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Nearly two dozen tents had taken hold on San Vicente’s median strips and other rights of way.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
  • This was after the male driver had struck another vehicle in the middle lane of the westbound section and the SUV crossed the median strip.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Major cities clamored to place them along main avenues, including, in New York, in the median strips of Park Avenue in 1993.
    Stephen Kinzer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The elevated portion of the tracks rise about 16 feet (5 meters) above a median strip and roadway in the poor southern borough of Tlahuac.
    Mark Stevenson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
  • The man’s vehicle rolled over onto the median strip north of exit 14 just before 8 p.m., a State Police spokesman said.
    Maddie Kilgannon, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • In the video, the victim, Elaine Herzberg, 49, appears to be illegally jaywalking from a median strip across two lanes of traffic on a dark road.
    Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Police stopped Jeffries after making a left turn over a median strip at the intersection of Lake Cook and Waukegan roads.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • The train ran above a concrete median strip, which may have lessened the casualties among motorists on the road below when a support beam gave way, the mayor said.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 4 May 2021
  • First, for replanting new trees on a median strip after the city removed old, bothersome Bradford Pear trees and for planting new grass on the strip.
    Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 3 July 2023
  • On Pacific Avenue, the park would claw back a drop-off lane and a median strip, and on Ervay Street an underutilized lane that sits outside the flow of traffic.
    Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Protesters dwindled in number, though a handful kept up a vigil in a median strip.
    Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The overpass was about 16 feet above the road in the borough of Tlahuac, but the train ran above a concrete median strip, which apparently lessened the casualties among motorists on the road below.
    E. Eduardo Castillo, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2021
  • The overpass was about 5 meters (16 feet) above the road in the borough of Tlahuac, but the train ran above a concrete median strip, which apparently lessened the casualties among motorists.
    Star Tribune, 4 May 2021
  • The woman, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, emerged at night from planted shrubbery on a divided highway median strip and into traffic.
    Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
  • In neighborhoods, residents were trying to position vehicles on higher ground, which often means parking on median strips that are just one or two feet above the street.
    Tim Craig, Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • They are also used to keep pedestrians away from certain areas considered unsafe, like median strips.
    Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
  • On sidewalks, median strips and amid the brick dust, mud and rubble of the 38 buildings that collapsed in Mexico’s 7.1 earthquake, impromptu memorials to victims and rescuers have sprung up, as the capital begins to come to terms with its losses.
    Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2017
  • She also is charged with felony vandalism for damaging a median strip in trying to cross into oncoming traffic, Bridgett said.
    CBS News, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The mayor’s program to combat homelessness went to a median strip in the Chinatown section of Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez‘s district.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024

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